Commentary: Who does America execute? A lot of people with mental illness and brain traumas
by Scott Martelle, Los Angeles Times
Dec 14, 2018
3 minutes
It's been apparent for years that the American death penalty system is so deeply and irredeemably flawed that it should not be used to determine whether someone should die for a crime. It's prone to manipulation by prosecutors and police, witnesses get details wrong (intentionally and not), and the penalty is applied disproportionately on minorities and the poor.
But a new report by the Death Penalty Information Center also argues that
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